In the forthcoming election, Obama will face the cameras and remind the American public that it was a Republican president who got the nation messed up in two foreign countries, while a Democratic president got it out of them.

In the first move of its kind, a U.N. working group recently concluded that Pyongyang has forcibly detained the wife and two daughters left behind by a South Korean man who escaped North Korea in 1986 a year after defecting there with his family.

Indonesia may have lost a lot more than the opportunity to see Lady Gaga when she canceled her June 3 concert in Jakarta last weekend. The episode could mark the beginning of the end for Indonesia’s civil liberties as radical groups continue unabated in their assault on the nation’s freedoms.

North Korea’s stubborn and wayward pursuit of nuclear weapons, which has continued over the past decades, disregarding international calls to halt the weapons program, is deplorable enough and now the denuclearization talks are as good as dead.

Willard Mitt Romney finally made it. With a victory in the important Texas primary election, the 65-year-old candidate has become the Republican choice for the presidency. The former Massachusetts governor must still dutifully go on his appointed rounds — seven states have yet to hold their primary elections — [Read more]

<i>At the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, apparently not only is heavy metal music used to torment suspects, but music from the kids’ program “Sesame Street” is also misused as an instrument of torture.</i>
The internment camp opened in 2002 at Guantanamo Bay is considered by many critics as a symbol of the [Read more]